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Re: Installing Firefox
That could be useful be I would like it to be set at install-time
(customize install...) instead of at startup. This way, once installed
it behaves like expected by GNOME developers (no intrusive customization
dialog at startup), except if the user decided to customize it.
Le mercredi 24 octobre 2012 à 20:56 +0200, Alessandro Scarozza a écrit :
> if the first start up it's open an application that lets you choose a
> number of things:
> - add gnome3 ppa
> - to install LibreOffice
> - to install firefox
> - more...
>
>
> it's install application in 1 click
>
>
> good?
>
>
> 2012/10/24 Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>
> Maybe you are right, I don't have a big user base here but I
> see more people around me using spins (Lubuntu, Xubuntu and
> Kubuntu) than the Ubuntu. Also, at least in my circles people
> are using GNOME Remix, not too much people but I like to think
> this number will grow up :-)
>
>
> Anyway, if we decide to keep Firefox and LibreOffice out we
> will always can make some posts/tutorials about post
> installation tweaks.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> 2012/10/24 Nathanel Titane <nathanel.titan.e@xxxxxxxxx>
> Quite frankly, what are the odds of 'human beings'
> using this spin?
>
> On 2012-10-24 2:19 PM, "Everaldo Canuto"
> <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, yes, that is why we are using Web
> (Epiphany) on 12.10.
>
>
> But there's one thing that we can't ignore,
> the end users, for us developers uninstall
> Firefox and use Web as default is really
> easy, for end users no.
>
>
> I do prefer Chromium and don't use office
> suite at all but I have this feedback about
> GNOME Remix and the "normal users" claim for
> Firefox and LibreOffice. So, we really must
> decide if we are going to hear our users or if
> like GNOME/Fedora/openSUSE project "we will
> decide what is better for them".
>
>
> I hope we take option one, otherwise we will
> just be a deb based Fedora and stay far from
> "human beings".
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> 2012/10/24 Nathanel Titane
> <nathanel.titane@xxxxxxxxx>
> I second that.
>
> On 2012-10-24 2:04 PM, "Lance"
> <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I truly prefer that we stick
> with the "pure Gnome" vision
> as much as possible :^)
>
> I mean ..... um .....
> well .... isn't a large part
> of the project to help develop
> Gnome apps?
>
> I rather prefer that
> scenario :^)
>
> Lance
>
> PS: Maybe we can
>
> --- On Wed, 10/24/12, Everaldo
> Canuto
> <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> From: Everaldo Canuto
> <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:
> [Ubuntu-gnome]
> Installing Firefox
> To: "Lance"
> <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:
> ubuntu-gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday,
> October 24, 2012,
> 11:50 AM
>
> I my opnion we should
> ship 13.04 with
> firefox, most people I
> have installed Ubuntu
> GNOME says that no
> problem to manually
> install Chromium but
> Firefox must comes by
> default. It is the
> same LibreOffice.
>
>
> Just created a
> blueprint last night
> so we can track some
> ideas for 13.04.
>
> Ah, thanks for the
> type about Firefox
> installation.
>
> 2012/10/24 Lance
> <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
> I've been
> playing quite
> a bit,
> basically
> trying to
> script my
> desired
> changes
> post-install,
> and I notice
> that just
> directly
> installing
> 'firefox' also
> wants to
> install
> 'firefox-globalmenu' which may not be a big deal since we use 'ubuntu-gnome-default-settings' but I'm finding it preferable to use the command:
>
> sudo apt-get
> --no-install-recommends install firefox
>
> Is this
> something we
> should think
> about going
> forward in
> Raring?
>
> I hope I'm not
> just being a
> pain in the
> neck. I'm very
> impressed with
> the simplicity
> of Mutter, and
> even more so
> with Metacity
> + Gnome panel.
>
> I find that
> the classic
> (no effects)
> session runs
> quite well on
> as little as
> an 1100 mhz
> CPU w/VIA
> P4M800
> graphics & 1
> GB of RAM ;^)
>
> No doubt
> Lubuntu will
> work just as
> well, but I've
> loved Gnome
> for a long,
> long time and
> it's nice to
> be able to use
> what one
> loves.
>
> Lance
>
>
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